#ThirstyThursday: Unicornetto Review: An IG-Worthy Ice-Cream That Tastes Magical as Well

If you’re a fellow who lives, breathes and drinks Instagram, then you’d have known about the Unicornetto.

While it sounds like the female version of a unicorn, it’s actually an insanely popular ice-cream by Cornetto, an ice-cream cone brand by Wall’s.

It first landed in freezers in Thailand in August last year, and since then, people all over the world have gone gaga over it even if they’ve not tasted it.

In The Sun from the UK, they called it the “most magical thing we’ve seen this year”.  In another UK site The Metro, it’s being conferred the title of “most Instagrammable ice creams around”.

And late last year, the ice-cream was available in Malaysia which made Instagram great again up north.

But hey: whatever Malaysia has, we must have it too, so earlier this week, it’s revealed that the sweet treat is coming to Singapore.

So we went up to our boss immediately.

Me: Boss, Unicornetto coming to Singapore liao. Can we do a review of it for #ThirstyThursday?

Boss: How much is the new Coke?

Me: It’s $2.80 and it’s not a drink—

Boss: $2.80 per bottle? Okay, here’s $1.80. Go buy and review it

Me: But boss, there’s $1 short—

Boss: I hire you to solve problems, not to give problems. Now f**k off and get it done.

And so, we got two of these ice-cream and since ice-cream can quench thirst too, here’s our review of the Unicornetto.

First Look

At $2.80, it’s a tad expensive but given that it’s a unicorn food, it’s considered affordable as anything unicorn is expensive.

When we went to the 7-Eleven outlet near our office, we were expecting it to be completely sold out, but there were millions of these colourful cones waiting for us.

So if you think you can’t get it anywhere, here’s Fact #1 for you: It’s readily available.

And here’s Fact 2: it looks beyond gorgeous.

It’s God-like, almost like it’s made for Instagram.

Here’s how it looks before we remove the wrapper.

It’s already a 10/10.

And once we remove the wrapper?

20/10.

Our neigbours walked past our office and nearly called the police because she claims she sees a unicorn in 10 Bukit Batok Crescent #09-07.

So whatever you’ve read online is true: it truly is magical aesthetically.

 

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Even our boss, who’s fat, doesn’t have Instagram and doesn’t know how to appreciate beauty, got a shock when he saw it.

“Reminds me of Walls’ Paddle Pop Rainbow Ice-cream when I was a kid,” he said. “Now all of you get back to work.”

While it’s shocking that he was once a kid, he’s correct: in the past, this ice-cream used to be the bae of all kids:

But how does it taste?

Here’s when it gets interesting, because we only get to experience the real taste as we bought two of them.

Taste Test

According to what is marketed, the flavour of the soft serve is cotton candy and marshmallow topped off with unicorn-ised colourful chocolate balls in the middle. Deeper into the cone is some strawberry jam.

There’s no mention of what cone it is, but read on and you’ll realise it’s not your normal cone.

So, we’ve got two of the cones and I had one.

The soft serve tastes, for the lack of a better word, weird. I didn’t read about it prior to having it so I’ve thought that it’s either creamy marshmallow that has double the sugar, or bubble gum.

While it sounds good on paper, the extra creamy touch to marshmallow or bubble gum just doesn’t make it as palatable as, say, McDonald’s soft serve. I don’t exactly fancy ice-cream but I’ve never thrown any away before—but this time, it’s just too overwhelming.

It’s like marshmallow that’s melted and mixed with milk and sugar.

That’s just too strong for my tongue.

The chocolate balls, though, add variety to the ice-cream. I found myself desperately munching on the balls and then the sweetness turned sour when the strawberry jam appeared out of nowhere (remember, I didn’t know anything about this).

It got better but hey: I’m just doing it for a review. I thought I’ve enough and after taking a bite of the cone for a well-rounded review, I jotted everything down in a notepad and threw it away.

In other words, I didn’t manage to complete it.

It was that bad.

But it turned out that I might be wrong.

My Colleague’s Feedback

As mentioned, I didn’t finish the cone, but there’s another one lying in the office so my colleague had it instead.

When I told him about my experience, he agreed wholeheartedly, but then added, “After you’re used to that ‘weird’ taste, it becomes a Michelin-starred dessert.”

I nearly fell from my chair. Shit, if I had finished it, my review would have been more impartial and I won’t be getting hate emails. And so I took out my notepad again and wrote down what he said.

“While it’s too sweet initially, the strawberry jam would then balance the taste perfectly soon after. It’ll then be much nicer: and as you devour it more, the cone, which you might think is your usual ice-cream cone biscuit, would add even more flavour to it.

“I can’t tell what it is, but it seems to be red velvet.”

Wait, isn’t Red Velvet a Korea girl group?

“But it’s just not your usual ice-cream cone. From then on, there’ll be more strawberry jam that makes it one of the best ice-cream cones you’d ever had.”

I nearly drooled at his description. Turned out that it could be good after all—I then got him to write this review instead, but he looked at the clock and said, “It’s 5:30 p.m. And it’s Thursday today. See you!”

And so, the conclusion is that it’s actually good—if you can tahan the initial sweetness overload.

Now, would I recommend it? Well, if I combined my rating with my colleague’s rating, it’ll be a…

Rating: 4/5

So go for it. For both your Instagram and your sweet tooth. Just remember to finish it for that wholesome experience.